Technical Features

July 2018

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Figure 1: Some battery chemistries compared

An Integrated Solution to Li-ion Battery Management

John Carpenter, Product Development Manager, Qorvo

This article discusses the issue and describes cost-effective integrated solutions that can also add extra user benefits, including state-of-charge and state-of-health monitoring. Going back in history, perhaps hundreds of chemistries have been proposed for batteries. These have ranged from the original copper,

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Date:

11/30/2023

Figure 1: MLV (left) vs. TVS diode (right) temperature derating

Transient Protection Solutions in Automobiles

Ron Demcko, Fellow, AVX Corporation

Thanks to modern technology, passenger vehicles are now safer, more enjoyable, and more efficient than ever. Today’s automobiles utilize incredible amounts of computing power to improve the overall driving experience in several different ways. For example, arrays of sensors and dedicated processing units n

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Date:

07/31/2018

Silicon Carbide Devices for Automotive Power Electronics

Dennis Meyer, Applications Engineer, Microsemi (a Microchip Company) & Jason Chiang, Strategic Marketing Manager, Microsemi (a Microchip Company)

Automotive OEMs and their suppliers have been on the high power, high growth vehicle electrification path for hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs)/electric vehicles (EVs) and beyond even to electrification of busses, trucks, trains and more electric aircraft (MEA). With high power demands beyond the efficiency and r

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Date:

07/31/2018

Optimizing Class-D Audio Amplifier Output Filters

Christopher Hare, Technical Marketing Engineer, Coilcraft, Inc.

When audio applications require the highest power efficiency, lowest heat generation, smallest size, and lightest weight, Class-D switched-mode amplifiers surpass the linear class amplifiers. This makes Class-D amplifiers the best choice for extending battery life in DC-powered audio applications, such as

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Date:

07/31/2018